10 Quotes about Christ for Christmas
- Compiled & Edited by Crosswalk Editorial Staff Crosswalk.com
- Updated Dec 05, 2016
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1. Max Lucado
Slide 1 of 10“Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt in amazement. Their night watch had been interrupted by an explosion of light from heaven and a symphony of angels. God goes to those who have time to hear him–and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds.” -Max Lucado
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2. C.S. Lewis
Slide 2 of 10"Once in our world, a stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world." -C.S. Lewis
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3. Ann Voskamp
Slide 3 of 10“So God throws open the door of this world—and enters as a baby. As the most vulnerable imaginable. Because He wants unimaginable intimacy with you. What religion ever had a god that wanted such intimacy with us that He came with such vulnerability to us? What God ever came so tender we could touch Him? So fragile that we could break Him? So vulnerable that His bare, beating heart could be hurt? Only the One who loves you to death.” -Ann Voskamp
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5. Billy Graham
Slide 5 of 10"The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that he might offer up his life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas." -Rev. Billy Graham
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6. G.K. Chesterton
Slide 6 of 10“Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not merely a summer sun of the prosperous but a winter fire for the unfortunate.” -G.K. Chesterton
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7. David Jeremiah
Slide 7 of 10“All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ." -David Jeremiah
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8. Corrie ten Boom
Slide 8 of 10"Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life." -Corrie ten Boom
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9. J.I. Packer
Slide 9 of 10“The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation.” -J.I. Packer
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10. George Whitefield
Slide 10 of 10“Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.” -George Whitefield
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